What is 1 trillion?

If I gave you 100,000 dollars would you be able to change your life? Buy a new car.. Buy a house… pay off all your debt.

What if you had 10 x 100,000? That is 1,000,000 (1 million) That could seriously change your life… you could probably quit working if you lived fiscally and depending on your age.

What about 1,000 x 1,000,000? That would be 1,000,000,000 (1 billion)… you definitely would never have to work again. Nor would your close reletives. You and your children and grandchildren would be set for life.

What about 1,000 x 1,000,000,000? That would be 1,000,000,000,000 (1 TRILLION) There is no way in your lifetime, children's lifetime, or grandchildren lifetime could the money be spent.

Our country is currently 11,000,000,000,000 dollars in debt. And our projected deficit for this year is 2,000,000,000,000 and Obama just did 1,000,000,000,000 in "stimulus" spending. And Obama is now requestion for 3,600,000,000,000 for additional spending in 2010.

The new budget has over 9,000 unnecessary and wasteful earmarks including $1.7 million for pig odor research in Iowa, $2 million for the promotion of astronomy in Hawaii, $475,000 for a parking garage in Provo City, Utah, $300,000 to build a Montana World Trade Center, $150,000 for a rodeo museum in South Dakota. $200,000 for tattoo removal in California… need I go on…

Please call your local representative and tell them to stop the spending this is not what we elected these people for! While campaigning Barack Obama said, "We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely." All this hope and change wasn’t meant to be this was it!

Bishop TD Jakes

My pastor had this in his blog and I thought it was really meaningful. (Don't stop reading Nicole it is not that bad! haha) I think this is something we do a little to much of. I know of several relationships I have tried to force and in the end it always ended up worse. Hopefully some of you ladies who have been... are being... or will be cheated on... will read this and move past the current relationship that is doomed to end in the end. You are to pretty, valuable and worthy of a good man... not to worry about the one who always puts you second.... look to the One who will put you first always... God!

There are people who can walk away from you. And hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk away from you: let them walk.
I don’t want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. I mean hang up the phone.
When people can walk away from you let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left. The bible said that, They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us [1 John 2:19]
People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can’t make them stay. Let them go.
And it doesn’t mean that they are a bad person, it just means that their part in the story is over. And you’ve got to know when people’s part in your story is over so that you don’t keep trying to raise the dead.
You’ve got to know when it’s dead. You’ve got to know when it’s over. Let me tell you something. I’ve got the gift of good-bye. It’s the tenth spiritual gift, I believe in good-bye.
It’s not that I’m hateful, it’s that I’m faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He’ll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don’t need it. Stop begging people to stay. Let them go!!
If you are holding on to something that doesn’t belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to ..LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to past hurts and pains … LET IT GO!!!
If someone can’t treat you right, love you back, and see your worth… LET IT GO!!!
If someone has angered you … LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge .. LET IT GO!!!
If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction … LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents .. LET IT GO!!!
If you have a bad attitude… LET IT GO!!!
If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better… LET IT GO!!!
If you’re stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new level in Him… LET IT GO!!!
If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship…. LET IT GO!!!
If you keep trying to help someone who won’t even try to help themselves.. LET IT GO!!!
If you’re feeling depressed and stressed …. LET IT GO!!!
If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself and God is saying “take your hands off of it,” then you need to… LET IT GO!!!
Let the past be the past. Forget the former things. LET IT GO!!!
Get Right or Get Left .. think about it, and then LET IT GO!!!
“The Battle is the Lord’s!”

Thoughts of a caring 2 year old

Kim talks regularly to her Nanny (Josh's Mom) on the phone. Friday night she was talking to her and she accidently dropped the phone... she QUICKLY picked it up and with urgency and caring in her voice she said.... "You ok Nanny?" There is no way you can bottle the sweetness and innocence of that!

Where are these guys!

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. ~Thomas Jefferson, July 4, 1776

What would our founding fathers think of us now :(

OneBigAssMistakeAmerica

OBAMA - One Big Ass Mistake America!

We as a nation have always been a proud group of people. But not anymore... it has now become a nation of people with their hands out. I wish I was from the era of America were it was looked down upon to get welfare... if you couldn't pay for it you didnt get it.... when a hand out or charity was an insult. Why is it now that Americans are ready to have the government give them everything and for them to have to work for nothing. I hope someday in my lifetime we return to the good old days. Until then I will continue to work to show my children that you should alway earn everything you get and dont sitback and let someone else take care of you.

Finish this sentence

Finish the Sentence....

1. My ex ... needs to find God.

2. Maybe I should... clean out my car from the trip.

3. I love......my kids.

4. People would say that I'm...well it depends on who you ask... but most would say I am a funny genuine person.

5. I don't understand...how people don't believe in God.

6. When I wake up in the morning....I hit the snooze.

7. I lost... 3 lbs this week. Yay!

8. Life is full of...highs and lows.

9. My past ... is what made me who I am today.

10. I get annoyed when...people are so fake they have to make you think they have a perfect life when they are actually behind on their bills, their husbands cheat on them and they are actually very unhappy and have to pop pills just to get thru the day.

11. Parties are..... alot of fun

12. I wish...I could see my family everyday.

13. Dogs...are loyal.

14. Cats... are stubborn.

15. Tomorrow... is friday and I get to see my babies again.

16. I have low tolerance for...fake people.

7. If I had a million dollars...I would give 100,000 to my church and the rest I would pay off my bills and my parents and Josh's parents bills.

18. I'm totally terrified of...something bad happening to my kids.

19. My friends...are wonderful

20. My life...is blessed with 4 wonderful kids, a husband who adores me and great friends that would give their life for me.

Uncle HJ

When I went home to Florida I got to see my Uncle HJ who is the last surviving sibling of my Papa's generation. He is one of the funniest coolest old guys around. He is legally blind b/c of some medicine he was on. He has had 2 strokes and a massive heart attack. But he says he is fit as a fiddle and plans on living forever. For our sakes I hope he does. He is comical and so fun to be around. I dont know when I will see him again but it was great getting to spend time with him while I was in Florida.